#communication

I've learned to expect the opposite of whatever leadership says in town halls. That's usually closer to the truth.

Do they really thing they are reassuring anyone when they say: "Over for now" & "Nothing planned"... Anyone who has an option should consider this as a clear sign about what to do. This fuzziness, double speak and silence from executives creates nothing but rumor loops and anxiety. What a way to lead...

In Aug 2025 it was told by leadership that due to performance we did layoffs.

Is this true? Nobody I know has gotten one. They are usually sent out the day before or the day of.

I am so fed up with it, multiple rounds, assurance, ghosting - repeat. Multiple follow up, no ans. I can see the number in the signature, can I just jump on a call? How bad it could be? I really want to understand what changed after that point which was not noticed earlier?

What the heck was this boring useless and common sense drivel?????

Hot mess….

Nobody knows whats going on with it…

Doesnt usaa know that a good portion of employees do not deal or interact with members?????

It makes everything so much more stressful. Not that I expected them to care, but still.

1) Do you feel you understand how we will move forward? 2) Do you think we are just getting started with layoffs? In my view 1=no and 2=yes, also, execs 100% botched communication on this one.

Why do they have to stay so vague? Why not give us the exact number?

This feels lame. It was clearly prepared and just a long running poor AI voice reading. How can the CEO do that? The head of our company cannot speak at the earnings call?

Looks like it'll be a long day for some of us. Our team is so far not affected but we also didn't get an all clear, so I'm not sure if I should celebrate or if there's still a chance some of us will get notified. I really wish this whole process was made clearer from the start.

Guys, what is this meeting for a flash call on my calendar? any ideas on what is happening?

if you dont know what that means you are a troll or too young at VZ to know anything about RIFs

If you’re sharing real info, include specifics. Team, Department, Band, Title. Ideally two of those data points. Otherwise we’ll assume it’s false.

• Band 7, Cx design

That’s how LR happen… share people.

Share what you know as Cisco is not sharing any LR news.

If you know something, say something and share with others.

Let the circus begin. The Coterra name was removed already so priorities are clear

Theres a phrase i keep hearing around Fidelity lately.,. usually said quietly between meetings ... or dropped into side conversations when nobody senior is around... "this place aint what it used to be." i don’t even think people say it with anger anymore. mostly it sounds tired. like people have repeated it enough times that it stopped feeling dramatic and just became accepted reality. Ive been here long enough to remember when fidelity actually felt different, and no, i’m not pretending it was some magical workplace where everybody skipped through hallways smiling at each other because obviously it wasn’t... nope. there were always POLITICS, red-tape/bureaucracy, sh-t leaders, pointless meetings, all of that existed back then too... but there used to be this fine sense that leadership at least understood employees were human beings first and workers second. there was a ton of fu--ing pressure, absolutely! but there was also trust... We all felt like they were contributing to something stable. Managers could actually manage. we believed hard work mattered. loyalty certainly mattered. relationships mattered and were meaningful. now it feels like everybody spends half their day trying to decode silence instead of listening to actual communication...

The communnication piece is probably what changed the most. Every reorg comes wrapped in this crazy vague language. Every Townhall somehow manages to say nothing (while making everybody more anxious and pi---d at the same time). Lies galore. Official updates feel so carefully polished that people stopped trusting them many, many, many years ago. you can literally feel employees trying to read between the lines during leadership calls because nobody believes they’re getting the full story anymore. and maybe leadership thinks uncertainty protects the business, maybe they think controlled messaging prevents panic, i don’t know... but what actually happens is people create their own explanations. Rumors (and all these posts on layoffs.com) become more believable than official statements because at least rumors feel emotionally honest... Morale drops because employees feel trapped in this permanent state of ambiguity where nobody knows what’s happening until it’s already happening. some of the strongest mgrs i know look completely drained and fu---d up now. They’re expected to reassure teams about decisions they had no role in making. they deliver messaging they clearly don’t believe in themselves. Not a little bit... Middle management at Fidelity increasingly feels like emotional shock absorbers for exec decisions...

then there’s the RTO situation... which I think broke something culturally that execs still dont fully grasp. this was never just about commuting. that’s the part they seem to miss every single time they talk about collaboration and culture and hallway conversations and whatever other corp sh-t buzzword gets recycled that quarter!! during hybridwork, people rebuilt their lives around the expectations the co itself created... families adjusted. people moved. some employees finally found balance after years of burnout... it was something new. and the thing that frustrates people most is we already proved the work could get done. productivity stayed as high as it's ever been. teams just worked, things clicked... clients were supported and notobdy was complaining... bus performance remained strong.. then suddenly the messaging changed, but leadership rarely explained why. instead we got carefully managed language, vague references to culture, soft pressure, badge tracking, attendance monitoring, and this growing feeling that presence became more important than contribution again. people notice when trust quietly gets replaced with surveillance...

what makes all of this harder to swallow is that fidelity is still successful. the company performs well. leadership talks about growth constantly. and yet employees feel less secure than ever?? that disconnect changes people over time. you start seeing high performers emotionally detach because they realize performance alone no longer creates safety. long tenured employees feel disposable. loyal employees feel disposable. everybody starts understanding that no matter how much they contribute, they’re still ultimately just another line item during workforce planning discussions somewhere behind closed doors. and once employees internalize that reality, culture shifts permanently. people stop investing emotionally and stap talking truthfully. we preserve energy for life outside work because deep down they no longer believe the company will protect them in return. i don’t even blame them anymore.......

the strange thing is the best part of fidelity still exists, and it’s mostly the people working beside each other every day. coworkers still help each other. teams still carry impossible workloads together. managers still quietly shield employees when they can. some of the most thoughtful, intelligent, genuinely decent people i’ve ever worked with are still here, trying their best inside a culture that increasingly feels transactional and emotionally distant. ironically, i think peer level empathy is the only thing keeping parts of this company functioning normally right now. NOT the culture slides... also - not the branding campaigns. not another executive speech about values. just exhausted people trying to support other exhausted people while pretending everything feels normal...

Maybe that’s what makes this whole thing feel sad instead of angry.

Cause I still want Fidelity to succeed. I think a lot of us do. People don’t spend this much time talking about cultural decline unless they actually cared about what the place used to represent. i just think there’s a growing number of us grieving a version of the company that made them feel human before operational... and once that feeling is gone, it’s impossible to rebuild no matter how many internal campaigns or leadership videos get released afterward...

long post huh. no matter what, i wish all the best and hope that, somehow, things will improve.

How was the town hall? Did anyone have the guts to ask a real question or were they all softballs?

what is the reason they have in the script for the RIF ?

Sorry but to me it feels like this emergency test is also to make sure we have a personal email so when they lay us off they can just send the documents or communication there. I went in and there is no way to remove it. Maybe I’m extremely paranoid but hey that would be this organizations fault to begin with.

Bypassing the thick of L1, L2, L3, L4, L5's above me? And the middle men/women of the DARN and chairman's line?

Every time I see this I feel like it's a thinly veiled threat that my job is an expense to be managed.

I'm assuming gunjan was having trouble with english and doesn't know the difference between expense and employee, hence why they started using "colleagues" instead to prevent slip-ups when she talks.

Just a chance for SL to pat themselves on the back… no recognition to the teams that do the hard work.

to put out a statement that either confirms or denies this event if it is indeed true or just rumors.
It’s bad business keeping it out there it can shake investors too hearing about this. Everyone wants stability. Needs stability so transparency is paramount.

I know it is normal that managers cut off communication with their laid off reportees. My manager was in touch with me on a personal note all of last week after I was impacted, but is now MIA; won’t respond to my calls or texts. This is my first time being laid off (my postpartum brain isn’t helping me think straight). My manager was once my coworker at Nike and we always had a good relationship outside the office, so I am trying to understand if there has been an explicit directive by Nike leadership to not be in touch with laid off employees.

I’m almost 100% positive our SM quit
Yesterday she was scheduled to return from vacation
No call/no show
Cell phone doesn’t ring and goes straight to voicemail
Texts not answered

So Ya I know same question

I’m a new director to Honeywell (4 months). I’m completely shocked my the lack of professionalism and communication skills. People don’t respond to meeting invites, ignore email, read texts/don’t respond and don’t call back. Free for all. The folks at the site only do what they want, no partnership with corporate functional leaders. Why has the culture devolved to this?

What is this new Take Two video we’re doing in the US? It feels like a segment in a local tv news program. Can leaders just communicate with us without dressing it up like this? It feels so inauthentic and artificial. Bad vibes. Especially for OA, who is usually a very transparent and genuine person. I’m sure they’ll regret making this when something important has to be communicated and quietly cancel it.

So will our new fearless leader MO drop any bombshells during the global webcast next week? She’s gotta say something of substance, right?

Come on splunk, get on Webex already…

Anyone know what’s going on with the career site for employees? Some folks have reported an issue seeing the GL and I’m unable to as well.

Can we make actually replying to peers in email or teams a fu--ing job requirement?? What a loser company, I have been here 6m and never seen anything like this at my other companies

Pretty neat cnbc got the CEO email before employees. One positive I guess is that 15% layoffs are on hold, for now, but seems like we have a solid number in mind now.

Curious everyone's thoughts

MG: If you’re gonna post an update, can we please drop the phony familiarity and assumption that we know who the he-l you’re talking about? Ridiculous & juvenile tone

Anyone have any intel on when Houston Financial Crimes Investigations will be done? There are only a few of us here, and all of our managers are in a different location.